It was, in all, a command performance, in which the colorful real estate magnate took a breather from feuding with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and flirting somewhat with running for governor to drop some big bridge straight talk on the listening audience — including the assertion, without citing a source, that replacing the 58-year-old bridge over the Hudson River will actually cost taxpayers $10 billion and that he “heard” the toll will be $25.

Also, the people who designed the new bridge are Park Avenue “eggheads.” Included in the basis for his analysis, Trump said, is the fact that he drives over the bridge quite often on his way to properties in Westchester and points north.

Without further preamble, here’s a sampling of what The Donald had to say about the state’s biggest public works project:

The $4 billion will end up turning out to be $10 billion, and the state will never be able to afford it.”

He continued…

The Tappan Zee Bridge, for a tiny fraction of money – it’s a perfectly good bridge. … The bridge is a totally fine structure, but it needs renewal, and the word renewal can be done for a tiny fraction of the — in my opinion — $10 billion bridge that they’re going to build. And not only that, it’ll be under construction for many, many years. It’ll disrupt the area anywhere within five miles of the bridge and tremendously disrupt it.”

…and continued…

The problem is the state has no money. … I heard they are going to charge $25 a passenger, a $25 toll. And I heard that number a while ago.”

At this point Dicker tried to interject to note that the $25 figure is unofficial because the state has been quite unwilling to speculate as to what the toll might actually be. But Trump would not be deterred, even launching into a seeming non-sequitur about how much a subway ride used to cost in his youth.

I just don’t see how could anybody – I’ve never even heard of such a thing. I’ve never heard of a $25 toll. It used to be 15 cents and 10 cents when I used to take the subway in the old days. …To go to $25 is just insane.”

Asked whether he still believes there’s time to abandon Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to build a new bridge, construction on which has already begun, Trump insisted there is.

Absolutely there’s time. You could do it immediately. You could do it in 24 hours. … You get the right engineers – I mean, the right people, not the eggheads that sit on their Park Avenue stools and they just design away because they’re going to make 10 times or 100 times more in fees by designing a new bridge. You get the right people to do it. You get to the right construction people.”

Trump’s ruminations on the topic of the bridge concluded with Dicker suggesting that Cuomo has “almost a fiduciary obligation” to at least check with the reality television star about his ideas. But would Trump be open to such a confab with the man he’s maybe-kind-sorta-possibly considering running against next year?